Part 4: Matches and Memories
The young 'business woman' bit her
lip as she looked over the map of the city she had been able to obtain from a
kind shop keep. She looked at it one
way then flipped the piece of paper upside down. " I just realized this was pointless seeing as I have no clue as
to where any of the digidestined live… and even if I did what would I do? Go up to them an ask 'Oh hi there, you
probably don't know me but I've come back from 25 years in the future and I was
wondering if any of you might have done something odd and fucked up the fate of
the entire universe?' I doubt that would go over well," she muttered to
herself.
" Yuriko it's getting really stuffy
in here!" a muffled voice came from the young woman's brief case.
" Hey, you're the one who didn't
want to play the part of the stuffed animal, not me."
" We're not going to change
anything are we?… Face it, you're an idiot."
" I am a idiot… you know I thought
that you guys were supposed to be helpful and nice… oh well at least this day
can't get any worse," Yuriko sighed before picking up the case and was about to
turn the corner when…
THUMP!
Someone had run into her knocking
her onto her back. The sensation of
hitting the ground like that triggered a memory to flicker in her mind and hope
to settle in her heart…
Six Years Ago…
///THUMP!
Who
would have thought that he could bowl her over? Yuriko look up sky from her fallen position on her back. A shadow was cast over her as the elfin face
of a young boy blocked the sun. His
indigo hair sparkled with hints of violet matching his dark blue eyes. He grinned down at her in his innocent
childish manner.
"Tag,
you're it," he giggled before running away.
"That's
it you're dead, munchkin!" she roared chasing after him. She had the advantage of having longer legs
seeing as she did almost have 2 feet over him in height and 6 years in age,
therefore she caught up to him pretty quickly.
She grabbed the little boy from behind stopping him in his tracks. "
You're in for it now Ken!" she said with a scowl on her face.
"No
anything but that!" he cried in reply, but it was no use.
She
began to tickle him mercilessly, making his body contort into many interesting
positions as he tried to escape from her fingers.
"Stop!…"
he tried to say but his hysterical giggling kept it from being an unbroken
sentence. " Wormmon… Ryo! Help!…. I'm being attacked by … an evil Dokumon!"
This
cause the young girl to stop her assault, but she still held the seven-year-old
boy fast to his spot. "Hey watch what you say little man!" she protested.
"Yeah
Ken…"
"Thanks
for agreeing with me Ryo," Yuriko beamed.
"…
You're inadvertently insulting Dokumon everywhere," Ryo continued with a gleam
in his eye.
"Oh!
That was low Ryo, you've cut me to the quick!" Yuriko shouted in mock hurt at
the fourteen-year-old boy, putting one her hands up to her forehead pretending
to be emotional distress. She then
swung the boy in her grasp up into her arms and walked over to the third member
of their mismatched team.
"Yeah
well it serves you right. We should be
watching the perimeter not fooling around!" Ryo snapped back.
"Whoa,
what's gotten into you, when did you become mister serious? You need to lighten
up," she hissed in response.
The
older boy sighed, "I don't know I just got till awful feeling that we're being
watched."
"Let me
guess, 'It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you,'" she smirked.
"I'm not
joking Yuriko, something's not right here!"
"There's
nothing wrong! You just need to have more fun!"
"You
need to be more serious, the digital world is a dangerous place!" he shot back.
"I am
SERIOUS!" she snapped.
"Yeah
RIGHT!" he screamed back at her.
"Uh…
guys?" a tentative voice came out of the small child balanced on Yuriko's
hip. The two older children looked over
at the blue haired boy. " Could you
please stop fighting… and could you put me down?"
The two
friends sighed letting go of the argument as Yuriko set Ken on the ground,
where he promptly rushed over to Wormmon, glomping onto the large caterpillar
like digimon.
The
three children and three digimon let the tension of moment slip away, never
knowing that their lives were going to be ripped apart within a matter of
minutes…///
Present Day
"Oh, I am
so sorry! Are you okay Miss?" an energetic voice broke through the veil of her
memories. She blinked a couple times
and was greeted with the sincere gaze of concern that was emulating from a pair
of chocolate brown eyes.
" I… ah
…I'm fine, thank you," she said as she slowly brought herself to her full
height dusting her uniform with her hands.
Yuriko looked again at the boy in front of her. She knew this boy his name was on the tip of
her tongue. Suddenly realization hit her.
Of course!
The spiky burgundy hair, the goggles, the dark eyes, the tanned skin…
The boy was
obviously Motomiya Daisuke, the unofficial leader of the present
digidestined. He was wearing red and
yellow soccer uniform, looking embarrassed and flustered.
" You in a
hurry?" the older girl asked.
" Uh… yeah
kinda, I've got to be a soccer match over at Rakutenka Park and I kinda late,"
he stuttered.
A knowing
smile crossed Yuriko's lips " Really? Oh well then don't let me keep you here,"
she replied and let the boy pass. He
said his thank-yous along with a few more apologies before rushing of down the
street towards the lake.
She let the
boy run for a little bit for turning in his direction and started to follow
him. The nice thing about the digidestined is that if you find one you'll find
the others… what to do with them, that was another thing.
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